{"id":23077,"date":"2025-10-30T20:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23077\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:32:07","slug":"bronx-man-arrested-for-posting-video-of-himself-torturing-cat-to-death-in-occult-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/23077\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man arrested for posting video of himself torturing cat to death in occult ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx man was arrested Thursday after posting videos online showing him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1587902912621572&amp;set=pcb.1202038595308733\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">torturing a cat to death<\/a> as part of a bizarre occult ritual he planned to repeat on All Halllows\u2019 Eve, a law enforcement source told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>David Mosley is charged with criminal mischief and aggravated cruelty to animals for causing an injury to a cat that led to its death, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also accused of spray-painting and engraving the walls of his Bedford Park apartment where he allegedly killed the cat after midnight on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the alleged torture that Mosely, 26, posted to his now-deleted Instagram account, @churchofububal, earlier this month has been preserved by numerous animal rights groups and advocates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DQOSXgTEaqM\/?igsh=MXd5aXc5ZXIxMTAxdA%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online postings<\/a>. Pictures show a dead cat lying in a circle drawn on a wooden floor and surrounded by lit candles, arcane symbols and blood.<\/p>\n<p>Local veterinarians and animal rights groups shared Mosley\u2019s posts online in an effort to prevent the suspect from adopting other animals after he posted a video vowing to reenact the slaughter on Halloween, according to the director of a local dog rescue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s talking about how he wants to charge money for people to watch him live on Halloween ritualistically torture and kill a cat,\u201d said the director of Canine Protection League, who gave her name as Bunny. \u201cHe\u2019s saying Oct. 31 is going to be live for members only. He wants to charge admission for his next video. People didn\u2019t believe him when he said he would slaughter the first cat. Now he\u2019s saying, \u2018You know I\u2019m for real.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bunny said a Bronx-based veterinarian contacted her organization about Mosley.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe noises the cat made were really horrendous and scary,\u201d said Bunny. \u201c(The veterinarian) wrote to a bunch of rescues to tell us to be on the alert for this guy and not adopt any animals to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mosley\u2019s arraignment was pending in Bronx Criminal Court Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>With Thomas Tracy<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx man was arrested Thursday after posting videos online showing him torturing a cat to death as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-23077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-crime","20":"tag-sub-county-region","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","23":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}